Lots of reasons to reject resolution

October 18, 2007|Leslie D. Simon, Boca Raton

U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, with his yes vote on the Armenian genocide resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, placed our troops in Iraq in greater jeopardy, harmed Israel's good relations with Turkey, endangered Turkey's large Jewish community and insulted our most important Muslim ally.

Armenians deserve our deepest sympathy for the tragedy that befell them almost a century ago. But to cause so much harm to American and Jewish interests over a long-ago event, is the height of folly, particularly when we are at war.

Let's hope Rep. Klein will redeem himself by voting no when and if this misguided resolution, opposed by every former living secretary of state, reaches the House floor.